All Light Rail articles – Page 76

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    News

    Samsun receives Durmazlar trams

    2016-11-18T11:15:00Z

    TURKEY: The second Durmazlar tram arrived in Samsun on November 17 after a journey by road from Durmazlar’s factory in Bursa that began the previous day. Samsun Metropolitan Municipality ordered eight five-section trams for Durmazlar in 2015 under a €12·3m contract. The first arrived in the city in late ...

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    News

    Taipei tram unveiled

    2016-11-18T10:40:00Z

    TAIWAN: New Taipei Mayor Eric Chu unveiled the first tram for the two lines being built in the Danhai district on November 16. The remaining 14 trams are due to be delivered by August 2017. The trams are being supplied by the Taiwan Rolling Stock Co joint venture of ...

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    Metro Report International

    Wuhan tram carries passengers

    2016-11-18T10:25:00Z

    CHINA: Passenger-carrying tests have started on tram line T6 in Wuhan. The 16·8 km route with 23 stops is the city’s first tram line, and runs from Guanlianhu Road to Chelun Square. The project cost was 2·6bn yuan. A 3 km extension is planned, which would add six stops. ...

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    Fast tram route opens in Lviv

    2016-11-17T14:30:00Z

    UKRAINE: Trams started running on Route 8 of the metre-gauge network in Lviv on November 17. The fast tram route links Plosha Soborna with the residential district of Sykhiv in the south, partly using newly built tracks that run south of Kinoteatr Dovzhenka. The end-to-end journey time is 25 ...

  • Derailed Croydon tram near Sandilands (Photo: RAIB).
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    Excessive speed caused Croydon tram derailment

    2016-11-16T14:21:00Z

    UK: On November 16 the Rail Accident Investigation Branch published its interim report into a fatal derailment on the Tramlink light rail network in Croydon, south London, which had taken place at around 06.07 on November 9. The report provides key information and urgent safety advice ahead of the completion ...

  • UKVZ will supply trams from its KTM-23 family.
    News

    UKVZ selected to supply trams to Khabarovsk

    2016-11-16T10:45:00Z

    RUSSIA: Sole bidder UKVZ has been selected to supply three partly low-floor trams to Khabarovsk. The 48·9m rouble contract is to be financed by the municipal budget. UKVZ will supply its Type 71-623-02 trams, with deliveries due by the end of December. Type 71-623 trams have been in service ...

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    Metro Report International

    Ukraine and EIB agree transport loan

    2016-11-15T15:30:00Z

    UKRAINE: The government and European Investment Bank signed a €200m loan agreement on November 11 to support a nationwide public transport investment programme. The 22-year loan has a five-year grace period. The funds will contribute to the €408m urban transport programme that covers investment in 11 cities. The remainder ...

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    News

    Omsk presents first low-floor tram

    2016-11-14T14:45:00Z

    RUSSIA: The first low-floor tram in Omsk was presented on November 8 to mark the 80th anniversary of trams in the city. The partly low-floor single section tram uses a Belkommunmash AKSM-62103 car body that the Omsk tram operator fitted with overhauled trucks from a UKVZ KTM-5 tram. ...

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    Paris Line T9 tram order

    2016-11-10T14:00:00Z

    FRANCE: Ile-de-France regional transport authority STIF has awarded Alstom a €70m framework contract to supply 22 Citadis X05 trams to operate on the future Line T9 in the Paris region. The order includes options for up to 68 additional trams for lines T9 and T10. Deliveries are due to ...

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    News

    Novosibirsk tram extension inaugurated

    2016-11-09T14:30:00Z

    RUSSIA: Novosibirsk Mayor Anatoly Lokot and Governor of Novosibirsk Oblast Vladimir Gorodetsky attended a ceremony on November 9 to inaugurate a 1 km extension of the city’s tram network. The extension between Poselok Yuzhniy and Chistaya Sloboda in the southwest of the city has three stops. It is part ...

  • Alstom has been awarded a €52m contract to supply 23 trams to Caen.
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    Caen orders Alstom trams

    2016-11-08T16:21:00Z

    FRANCE: Alstom has been awarded a €52m contract to supply 23 trams for the 16·8 km three-route tramway being built in Caen. The Citadis X05 trams are to be delivered from mid-2018 for entry into service in September 2019. The contract announced on November 8 includes options for up to ...

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    Tampere tram project formally approved

    2016-11-08T12:21:00Z

    FINLAND: Tampere city council has voted to build a tram network, with 41 in favour and 25 against. The 23·5 km standard gauge route would link the city centre with Sampola, where branches would continue to the University of Tampere and Hervanta. In 2015 the city selected ...

  • Samsung C&T has pulled out of a project to build a light rail line in Seoul.
    Metro Report International

    Samsung C&T pulls out of Seoul light rail project

    2016-11-07T18:21:00Z

    SOUTH KOREA: Samsung C&T has pulled out of a project to build a light rail line to connect the Wirye New Town residential area of southeast Seoul with the Sinsa-dong business area of Gangnam District. The company told Metro Report International that it had decided to withdraw owing to ‘a ...

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    News

    First short Flexity Basel enters service

    2016-11-07T11:55:00Z

    SWITZERLAND: The first five-section Flexity Basel tram entered revenue service on Route 3 of the city’s tram network on November 4. From next year it is expected to enter service on routes 15 and 16. In 2012 transport authority BVB ordered 61 Flexity trams from Bombardier for SFr255m. The ...

  • HKL has selected Škoda Transportation subsidiary Transtech to supply 29 trams for the Raide-Jokeri line.
    News

    Transtech to supply trams for Helsinki orbital route

    2016-11-04T05:34:00Z

    FINLAND: Helsinki transport operator HKL has selected Škoda Transportation subsidiary Transtech to supply 29 trams for the future 25 km Raide-Jokeri orbital light rail line which is to be built to link Itäkeskus with Keilaniemi in Espoo. HKL is to order the vehicles by exercising part of an option for ...

  • Berlin city transport operator BVG has approved a €3·1bn metro and tram procurement programme.
    News

    €3·1bn Berlin fleet renewal programme approved

    2016-11-02T15:29:00Z

    GERMANY: The supervisory board of Berlin city transport operator BVG approved a €3·1bn metro trainset and tram procurement programme running until 2035 at its meeting on October 31. This decision enables BVG to call the first tenders under the fleet expansion and renewal programme, which could eventually cover 700 large-profile ...

  • San Diego Metropolitan Transit System has awarded Siemens a contract to supply a further 45 light rail vehicles.
    Metro Report International

    San Diego orders Siemens LRVs

    2016-11-01T15:18:00Z

    USA: San Diego Metropolitan Transit System has awarded Siemens a contract to supply a further 45 light rail vehicles from late 2018. Announcing the contract on November 1, Siemens said the low-floor S70 LRVs would be built at its Sacramento plant. They will feature a redesigned centre section to improve ...

  • The new cars would replace the older high-floor vehicles on Belgium's coastal tramway.
    News

    CAF preferred for De Lijn trams

    2016-11-01T10:59:00Z

    BELGIUM: CAF has been selected as preferred bidder to supply 146 low-floor trams for De Lijn, at an estimated cost of €320m, the Vlaanderen transport operator announced on October 31. De Lijn invited bids last year for its largest ever procurement, covering three builds of 32 m long cars to ...

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    Metro Report International

    Minneapolis orders Siemens S70s to work Southwest LRT

    2016-10-28T07:48:00Z

    USA: The Twin Cities’ Metropolitan Council has selected Siemens to supply its third generation of light rail vehicles, to operate the 23·5 km Southwest LRT linking Minneapolis and Eden Prarie. Met Council announced on October 26 that it had issued a Limited Notice to Proceed authorising Siemens to begin engineering ...

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    News

    Fokstrot tram deliveries to Moscow resume

    2016-10-27T11:04:00Z

    RUSSIA: Deliveries of Pesa Fokstrot trams to Moscow resumed on October 25, when 10 trams were shipped from Pesa’s factory in Bydgoszcz to the Russian capital. Operator Mosgortans signed a contract in 2013 for 120 Fokstrot trams to be supplied by Pesa in co-operation with Uraltransmash. Following the steep ...